A history of East Finchley Festival by East Finchley Festival CIC, edited by David Smith, with thanks to The Archer newspaper for additional material. Many
Author: David Smith
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The origins of the Great North Road by David Smith Up until the 14th century, much of Finchley was dense woodland, known as Finchley Common,
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, August/September 1998 At the turn of the century, when much of East Finchley’s corner of the
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, July 1998 London’s first underground tube railway opened in 1870, under the Thames from Tower Hill
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, May 1998. When first opening an old map of Finchley I was surprised to see the
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, March 1998. The question of East Finchley’s identity was brought into focus by the decision to
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, January/February 1998. The first wave of London expansion to hit East Finchley, in the 1800’s, was
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, November 1997. For centuries, Finchley remained an unremarkable rural community whose dependence on wood based occupations
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, July 1997. Finchley was firmly on the map by 1199 when King John exempted the Bishop
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Article by Tony Roberts, first published in The Archer, June 1997. The Bishops Avenue and The Bishops Wood are the last reminders of the Bishops